On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> reading slashdot is almost never worth the bandwidth or the time of your
> life spent looking at it.

if you are looking for technical information, you're
correct.  it's not useful.

if however, you're interested in what people think,
slashdot is a good barometer.

- erik

My mileage on that has varied as well :-).  Most people I know couldn't give a rats ass about what slashdotters think, and no one I work for or with even looks at that site.

Dave